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Unwriting the Freedom Narrative: A Review Essay
[...]the definition of combatants has expanded to include not only partisans and guerrillas but also women, children, and slaves. In the wake of the June 2015 murders at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, debates about the Confederate flag converged with the larger #blacklivesmatter movement to push national conversations about race in new directions.
Journal Article
A Red Record: Revealing Lynchings in North Carolina
Emberton reviews A Red Record: Revealing Lynchings in North Carolina, an Internet resource available at http://lynching.web.unc.edu. This site is a digital archive of lynchings taking place in North Carolina from the 1860s to the 1940s.
Journal Article
The World the Civil War Made
[...]the line between slavery and freedom appeared much blurrier, and the emerging labor systems preserved levels of compulsion that suggest the persistence of slavery.
Book Review
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW: REVISITING RACE AND RECONSTRUCTION
According to Bot- toms, \"California Indians . . . had worries much more important and immediate that their right to testify in court\" (p. 26 ). Because California's 1849 Constitution defined the state's Mexican population as nominally \"white,\" Bottoms does not see them as objects of racial oppression.
Book Review
Reconstructing Loyalty: Love, Fear, and Power In the Postwar South
This chapter focuses on loyalty, which is identified as “a primary
organizing principle” for the South. For too long, its meaning has been
confined to Union patriotism. By contrast, Confederates invested much more in the term.
Loyalty meant entering into special relationships of commitment, relationships that
transcended the rights and contracts embedded in our legal commercial world. If loyalty
meant treating some people specially, it meant treating those who were outside these
special relationships quite differently. The loyal Southern community looked back to the
Civil War as its defining moment. Rituals—whether in reminiscences published
in the newspaper or in the virtually identical speeches given for decades on Confederate
Memorial Day—recalled sacrifices and heroic past deeds. Such rituals were
significant instruments by which the loyal Southern community marked who was included
and who was excluded. Inclusion and exclusion was the dark side of loyalty and Southern
distinctiveness.
Book Chapter
The politics of protection: Violence and the political culture of Reconstruction
This project examines the cultural, intellectual, and political impact of the widespread violence that plagued the Reconstruction-era South. Anxiety about the \"militant South\" made for a common theme in nineteenth-century life. According to abolitionists and non-native observers, the conspicuous displays of violence that slavery required epitomized the region’s difference from the North in the antebellum period. While the Civil War was the pinnacle of southern militancy, the victors believed that Union triumph confirmed the North’s moral supremacy and stymied the southern tradition of settling political disputes with the sword. However, violence renewed in the postwar years worrying northerners charged with reuniting the country and securing a peaceful transition to freedom for nearly four million former slaves. By tracing the changing opinions about what constituted \"political\" violence and thereby made the South a subject of intense federal intervention after the Civil War, I argue that Reconstruction violence not only drove freedpeople and their white allies from the polls but also provided an interpretive lens through which many Americans both North and South could evaluate the newly-emerging nation-state and their relationship to it. This dissertation is an attempt to expand the scholarship on Reconstruction by opening up a broader discussion of the era’s political culture, language, and symbolism and the ways that these forms of political expression called upon idioms of violence and force. By adding to the well-known rhetoric of free labor, contract, and liberal citizenship that sustains Reconstruction scholarship, the discourses of violence, revolution, and armed redemption in the South that I analyze here begin to build a more nuanced understanding of how Reconstruction politics entered the everyday lives of postwar Americans. The source base is varied and includes both written and visual texts, manuscript letters, governmental records, and published legal proceedings. The chapters that follow are case studies that offer accounts of violent episodes that sparked national debates about the causes, solutions, and legitimacy of southern violence and its relationship to political change.
Dissertation